The fraud [preloaded audiobook]
(Playaway)
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Published
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Products, LLC, [2023].
Format
Playaway
ISBN
9798822676879, 9789798822674, 9798822676
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Ardsley Public Library - Playaway
PLAYAWAY SMITH
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LC Subjects
Ainsworth, William Harrison, -- 1805-1882 -- Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Housekeepers -- Fiction.
Impostors and imposture -- Fiction.
Legal fiction (Literature)
London (England -- Fiction.
Novels.
Orton, Arthur, -- 1834-1898 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Fiction.
Peerage claims -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Trials -- Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Housekeepers -- Fiction.
Impostors and imposture -- Fiction.
Legal fiction (Literature)
London (England -- Fiction.
Novels.
Orton, Arthur, -- 1834-1898 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Fiction.
Peerage claims -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Trials -- Fiction.
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Published
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Products, LLC, [2023].
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 12.5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
ISBN
9798822676879, 9789798822674, 9798822676
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Release date supplied by publisher.
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Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
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One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
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Previously released by Penguin Random House.
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Accompanying material may vary.
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Description
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story--and who deserves to be believed It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story. The "Tichborne Trial"--wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title--captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr. Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task. . . . Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of "other people."
Target Audience
Adult.
System Details
Playaway Digital Audio.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Smith, Z. (2023). The fraud [preloaded audiobook] . Playaway Products, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Zadie. 2023. The Fraud [preloaded Audiobook]. Playaway Products, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Zadie. The Fraud [preloaded Audiobook] Playaway Products, LLC, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Smith, Zadie. The Fraud [preloaded Audiobook] Playaway Products, LLC, 2023.
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